Free teaching resources connecting poetry with music and song lyrics, including literary analysis, rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, songwriting, and classroom activities.
Openly licensed Grades 7–8 lesson connecting music, song lyrics, sensory details, descriptive language, visual art, and original poetry writing.
Free Smithsonian K–2 poetry lesson introducing the three-line blues stanza, rhythm, music, and Langston Hughes, with younger students composing their own blues poems.
Free haiku unit for grades 5–8 combining nature observation, sensory imagery, mindfulness, writing, illustration, movement, music, collaboration, and performance.
Openly licensed Grade 9 lesson that develops comprehension of Shakespearean language through comparison, paraphrase, close reading, music, and a blackout-poetry activity.
A Smithsonian classroom guide connecting poetry and music through ballad stanzas, blues, iambic rhythm, meter, scansion, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and hands-on activities that move poetry from the page into rhythm and performance.
A three-week Grade 10 poetry unit by Tom Deshotels connecting poetry with popular music, poetic devices, sensory writing, poem analysis, background knowledge, performance, chapbooks, and student presentations.
Openly licensed ELA lesson using poems, mood analysis, literary response, and music-generation or songwriting extensions.
Openly licensed Grades 10–11 lesson on tone using song lyrics, nonfiction, close reading, civil-rights texts, and a Two-Voice Poem activity.
Openly licensed high-school lesson using Woody Guthrie, song lyrics, historical context, and blackout poetry to explore social commentary, figurative meaning, and poetic expression.
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